Palm Beach Money

Tag: how my parents saved for retirement

My father wasn’t an investor. Nope. Not at all. Oh sure, there were the 100 shares of Dayton Hudson stock my mother purchased when she began working at Target in the 1960s. But those shares were soon sold. My dad couldn’t see the value in them. My mother could. But the stock market was pretty much boring back then. There weren’t any 24/7 financial talking heads around. Never mind radio or television stations totally dedicated to yapping endlessly about what was going on in the markets every minute of every day they were open reminding investors of the importance of [More]